Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience. On another IT note, with the onset of COVID-19, it was imperative to quickly implement a telehealth solution that could integrate seamlessly with the current IT set-up and help the clinic meet the needs of remote patient care. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. Cerner users at hospitals, health systems, physician offices and clinics will be able to launch secure Zoom visits directly within EHR workflows, the companies say. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. "An obvious potential driver of this finding is that many clinicians delivered care virtually via telemedicine, including both phone and video visits," observed researchers. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Cerner announced this week that it would be offering a new video care platform to its CommunityWorks clients at no cost through the end of next year. Cerner says its customers' patients can receive care using their modality of choice via the new program, which it's calling Video Visit. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Within the Osmind EHR, clinicians can access a suite of digital tools to meet high-patient demand, like progress monitoring and journaling tools. Other EHR vendors, including Oracle Cerner and Epic , have already integrated Zoom with their platforms. WHY IT MATTERS. We are thrilled to partner to offer their industry-leading solution."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

As more health systems begin to build out their virtual care portfolios, they're quickly finding that integrating with their EHR is an essential piece to providing an experience that delights patients and doesn't disrupt care providers. Ambulatory was more difficult to iterate, due to the EHR integration.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2020

The integrated app allows providers using DrChrono's platform to schedule and launch video visits from within their calendar, while next month's tool helps patients search for and receive virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. A few weeks ago, as telehealth started to explode, I realized how important understanding the telehealth market was going to be for those who read Healthcare IT Today. Plus, having been through the golden age of EHR software otherwise known […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Telemedicine is best applied in low-acuity situations – cases where being on video or engaged in a live video chat or discussion is not inconvenient. "Having this kind of tool built into the clinicians' workflow by being embedded within the EHR is another level of convenience that is becoming table stakes at this stage."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The practice was an early adopter of telehealth back in 2010, implementing it as a way to care for people unable to attend in-person sessions. Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. At first, caregivers were using WebEx and Google Hangouts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. It has provided a total of 680 telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The hospital will primarily run on virtual technologies, such as video conferencing, to deliver care. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The MedArmor AI Hospital will pursue a preventive healthcare model, emphasising early disease detection and timely interventions. It will be underpinned by AI and virtual care technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2024

This was largely because telemedicine visits were not embedded in the patient portal, MyChart from Geisinger's EHR vendor Epic , said Benjamin C. "After their visit, providers had the ability to share a copy of the patient's treatment plan via specialty plans of care in the Epic EHR."

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Would […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Because the EHR and telehealth systems come from the same vendor, there was a clear and defined pathway for office workflows and patient access already well established, Perry said. The eClinicalWorks telemedicine system was integrated directly into the EHR the primary care centers already were using. " Jeffrey M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2020

This required NYPCC to get set up on a telehealth platform and to enable all of its clinicians to work remotely. When the state of emergency was declared, NYPCC realized it was imperative that it pivot to a telehealth model that allowed the organization to continue providing the vital services its communities needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic. In addition, Allscripts offers FollowMyHealth, which enables providers to give direct patient-to-provider telehealth services. More information about its telehealth capabilities can be found here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. " Centura Health's Epic electronic health record offered most features available for telemedicine services, so it eventually transitioned to Epic Video Client for virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. The FollowMyHealth Telehealth technology from Allscripts provided exactly what the health system was looking for, said Lori Miller, Chief of Information Services at Grand Lake Health System. The FollowMyHealth Telehealth system met the needs of GLHS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustaining quality telehealth programs. "Telehealth will play a pivotal role in the healthcare delivery system. This, along with other technologies, will be used for clinical decision making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

My firm's work with health systems on their digital health and digital transformation programs suggests that while telehealth technologies have matured rapidly in the wake of the pandemic, the implementation of virtual care programs has been a struggle. But telehealth is much more. Who is my telehealth consumer?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a tool aimed at automatically identifying patients likely to need telehealth technical assistance. In response, the Johns Hopkins team developed what they called an automated "video visit technical risk score" tool in their Epic EHR. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modern identity systems must support a wide range of devices and accommodate telehealth, which means the patient should be onboarded without having to come into the clinical office. Okta is currently integrated with a number of EHRs including Epic, allowing automatic onboarding, offboarding, and role changes for both staff and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The provider organization believed telehealth was the future, but had only been using the technology in small niches, such as school-based care. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense. Jordan Valley was awarded telehealth funding from the FCC. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Two hundred miles away, a specialist will consult with them via video, but only because none such specialists were available to them in their area. After all, it was convenient and cost-effective for these physicians to perform video visits with at-home patients. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs. Other examples of telehealth-enabled support include virtual nursing, direct-to-patient video visits, and hybrid ambulatory and in-patient virtual specialty consults. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Further, with new infectious risks and with limitations of personal protective equipment, there were new needs around video and remote monitoring of patients admitted in the hospital. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

"After evaluating several options, Iris Telehealth stood out for two key reasons: Its consistent track record of delivering on promises at other institutions and its willingness to grow alongside us in a true partnership that was relationship-focused rather than transactional.

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